AI Against Climate Change: A roadmap explores how AI can detect and mitigate greenhouse gases.
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AI Against Climate Change: A roadmap explores how AI can detect and mitigate greenhouse gases.

How can AI help to fight climate change? A new report evaluates progress so far and explores options for the future. The Innovation for Cool Earth Forum, a conference of climate researchers hosted by Japan...

January 3, 20242 min read
Kevin Scott: Be Prepared for Another Year of Exponential Growth
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Kevin Scott: Be Prepared for Another Year of Exponential Growth

Without question, 2023 has been the most exciting and interesting year in technology that I’ve seen over a fairly long career. It bears mention that I’m pretty sure I said more or less the same thing at the close of 2022...

December 27, 20232 min read
Kevin Scott: Be Prepared for Another Year of Exponential Growth
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Kevin Scott: Be Prepared for Another Year of Exponential Growth

Without question, 2023 has been the most exciting and interesting year in technology that I’ve seen over a fairly long career. It bears mention that I’m pretty sure I said more or less the same thing at the close of 2022...

December 27, 20232 min read
Pelonomi Moiloa: Smaller Models That Learn More From Less Data
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Pelonomi Moiloa: Smaller Models That Learn More From Less Data

One of my favourite flavours of conversation is listening to reinforcement learning experts talk about their children as reinforcement learning agents. These conversations highlight just how comically far behind humans our machine learning models are.

December 27, 20232 min read
Pelonomi Moiloa: Smaller Models That Learn More From Less Data
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Pelonomi Moiloa: Smaller Models That Learn More From Less Data

One of my favourite flavours of conversation is listening to reinforcement learning experts talk about their children as reinforcement learning agents. These conversations highlight just how comically far behind humans our machine learning models are.

December 27, 20232 min read
Sasha Luccioni: Respect for Human Creativity and Agency
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Sasha Luccioni: Respect for Human Creativity and Agency

Before this past year, when I told people I worked in AI, more often than not I was met with a blank stare and sometimes a question along the lines of: “You mean like robots?”

December 27, 20233 min read
Sasha Luccioni: Respect for Human Creativity and Agency
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Sasha Luccioni: Respect for Human Creativity and Agency

Before this past year, when I told people I worked in AI, more often than not I was met with a blank stare and sometimes a question along the lines of: “You mean like robots?”

December 27, 20233 min read
Percy Liang: Transparency for Foundation Models
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Percy Liang: Transparency for Foundation Models

Only a year ago, ChatGPT woke the world up to the power of foundation models. But this power is not about shiny, jaw-dropping demos.

December 27, 20233 min read
Percy Liang: Transparency for Foundation Models
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Percy Liang: Transparency for Foundation Models

Only a year ago, ChatGPT woke the world up to the power of foundation models. But this power is not about shiny, jaw-dropping demos.

December 27, 20233 min read
Sara Hooker: Prioritize Inclusion
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Sara Hooker: Prioritize Inclusion

The past year has seen incredible innovation in AI, and I expect as much or more in 2024. The coming year undoubtedly will be a year of rapid progress in models – multimodal, multilingual, and (hopefully) smaller and faster.

December 27, 20233 min read
Sara Hooker: Prioritize Inclusion
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Sara Hooker: Prioritize Inclusion

The past year has seen incredible innovation in AI, and I expect as much or more in 2024. The coming year undoubtedly will be a year of rapid progress in models – multimodal, multilingual, and (hopefully) smaller and faster.

December 27, 20233 min read
Anastasis Germanidis: New Tools to Tell New Stories
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Anastasis Germanidis: New Tools to Tell New Stories

The year 2023 was an inflection point in the development of broadly useful AI systems across text, image, video, audio, and other modalities. At Runway alone, we saw the release of video-generation models such as Gen-1 and Gen-2...

December 27, 20232 min read
Anastasis Germanidis: New Tools to Tell New Stories
Tech & Society

Anastasis Germanidis: New Tools to Tell New Stories

The year 2023 was an inflection point in the development of broadly useful AI systems across text, image, video, audio, and other modalities. At Runway alone, we saw the release of video-generation models such as Gen-1 and Gen-2...

December 27, 20232 min read
Deep Learning Rocks: How 2023’s soundtrack became AI-generated
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Deep Learning Rocks: How 2023’s soundtrack became AI-generated

Fans of AI-driven music pressed play, while a major recording company reached for the stop button. AI grabbed listeners by the ears when it helped produce a new single by The Beatles, mimicked the voices of beloved stars, and generated music from text prompts.

December 20, 20232 min read
Deep Learning Rocks: How 2023’s soundtrack became AI-generated
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Deep Learning Rocks: How 2023’s soundtrack became AI-generated

Fans of AI-driven music pressed play, while a major recording company reached for the stop button. AI grabbed listeners by the ears when it helped produce a new single by The Beatles, mimicked the voices of beloved stars, and generated music from text prompts.

December 20, 20232 min read

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